P3D Re: Archive Searches

["wier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"<wier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Is there available a list of P3D Archive search strategies?  How do you 
>combine two words or phrases in order to refine the search?  What constitutes 
>"or"?  Is there a "but not" term?  Do you use quotes around a multi-word 
>phrase?  Help!!!  And, thanks.  Jim Norman

Glimpse ( the search engine used here because it's CHEAP!) uses
a semicolon (;) for AND operations, and a comma (,) for OR operations.
However note that it's somewhat line oriented in certain situations -
if the words don't appear on the same line in the message, GLIMPSE
may miss the message. You can also specify "fuzzy" matching if
you are not sure of the exact spelling. On the previous version I
had "near" and "far" matching so that if you wanted something specifically
regardin Realist light leaks, it had to find the words fairly close
together, otherwise they could be any distance apart in the digest.
Glimpse changed in the new version, but I still may be able to
re-write the code to handle that.

The best stragegy if you are looking for example for topics
regarding light leaks in the Realist would be first:

leaks;Realist

followed by 

light;leaks  or
light;leak

followed by

Realist 

(the last will result in a TON of hits!).

THANKS

              Bob Wier
     mailto:wier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
   11:43 AM Thursday, May 20, 1999
        Unix/Internet Administrator
   Rocky Mountain College, Billings MT.
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